Canada

Fire River Gold completes PEA on Nixon Fork gold mine

Capital costs to resume production at Fire River Gold’s (FAU-V, FVGCF-O) flagship Nixon Fork underground gold mine in Alaska are estimated at US$6.3 million with a projected payback of three months according to a preliminary economic assessment.


Taseko to add capacity at Gibraltar mine

Taseko Mines (TKO-T, TGB-X) wants to take advantage of robust copper prices and expand capacity at its 75%-owned Gibraltar mine in the Cariboo region of British Columbia and Williams Lake. 


Vanadium: metal of future and present.

Lithium has grabbed much of the headlines over the last few years when the subject of key metals of the future comes up. But more and more investors are paying attention to vanadium for the metals unique attribute of fitting in with two future…



Northgate Minerals updates resource at Kemess

Northgate Minerals (NGX-T, NXG-N) has boosted its indicated resource tonnes by 18% and its contained gold and copper by 10% and 9% respectively at its Kemess underground project in north-central British Columbia.


Editorial: US budget folly to extend commodities boom

U.S. politics veered into the surreal this week, as U.S. President Barack Obama unveiled a deficit-laden, US$3.73-trillion budget proposal for fiscal 2012 that completely ducks the critical issue of unsustainable spending by the U.S. government…


People (February 14, 2011)

ArcelorMittal – Simon Wandke appointed as a VP and mining division’s chief commercial officer of marketing and sales.





A drill crew at Fronteer Gold's Long Canyon gold project in Elko Cty., Nevada, pictured in 2008. Photo by Trish Saywell

Newmont bids for Fronteer

Newmont Mining (NEM-N) is the latest to join the wave of merger and acquisition activity that is washing over Canadian mining companies. 


Roundup: Atac, Kaminak gear up for 2011

Vancouver – In a couple of packed sessions at the Mineral Exploration Roundup in late January, leading Yukon gold explorers Atac Resources (atc-v) and Kaminak Resources (kam-v) laid out their plans for stepped up exploration in 2011.


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